A NEW PHIMOSIS CLAMP.

A New Eyelid Clamp

A new bronchus clamp.

Bronchus clamps for use in lung resection have never been entirely satisfactory. The very large number of models available make this plain. When lung resection presents no problems almost any model of bronchus clamp is suitable. In a technically difficult situation all have shortcomings. The basic requirements of a bronchus clamp are: 1. It must be easy to pass with the minimum of dissection of...

A new stomach clamp.

An efficient stomach clamp is one which exerts an even and sufficient pressure across the whole width of the stomach without causing undue trauma at any one point. Very few stomach clamps at present obtainable fulfil these conditions satisfactorily because they ate mainly constructed on the ' bow handle ' principle, or are of the crushing type. All clamps of this type necessarily exert most pre...

Phimosis--a diagnostic dilemma?

INTRODUCTION Phimosis is defined as the inability to retract the foreskin. Differentiating between physiological phimosis and pathological phimosis is important, as the former is managed conservatively and the latter requires surgical intervention. Referrals of patients with physiological phimosis to urology clinics may create anxiety regarding the need for surgery amongst patients and parents,...

Phimosis in Children

Phimosis is nonretraction of prepuce. It is normally seen in younger children due to adhesions between prepuce and glans penis. It is termed pathologic when nonretractability is associated with local or urinary complaints attributed to the phimotic prepuce. Physicians still have the trouble to distinguish between these two types of phimosis. This ignorance leads to undue parental anxiety and wr...